Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance Review: 26 Ratings, Pros and Cons

Would benefit from deeper characterization
Game crashes caused lost progress
Animation bugs

The loot system is a little haphazard
Movement and combat can feel a little stiff
Online services are spotty at the moment

...but sucks when its marred by glitches
Bugs, Glitches...please send a patch
Story had the promise of being so much more
Why is Regis not in this game?!

Sometimes combat just doesn't work right
Awkward menus to master
Not at all enjoyable on your own

Lots of bad design choices
Broken single player game
Brain-dead AI
Many bugs, some significant

Dull plot exposition dumps
Graphics tend to stutter
Doesn't feel like D&D

Unacceptable amount of bugs
Unnecessarily painful matchmaking
Button mashing from start to finish

Sluggish and clunky
Constant performance issues
Monotonous gameplay

Virtually no story
Battle system is unbalanced
Lacks polish

Lore is poorly executed outside of collectibles
Too many bugs and glitches to ignore, breaking immersion
Encounters are very repetitive, save for a couple of interesting boss fights
Exploration is also repetitive, lacking something more interesting or puzzle-like
No character growth. Literally none.

Feels unfinished. Lousy loot system. Boring battles. Very repetitive. Old graphics. Uninspired level design.

Gear score system and loot tied to difficulty
Poor animation and janky movement
Lackluster exploration and pointless collectibles
RPG stats that are mostly separate to loot, abilities, and combat
Doesn?t scale for solo play
Riding up elevators in co-op is janky, and there are a lot of them
Enemy AI is some of the worst seen in years
Can?t view equipment or abilities ?in-game?
Upgrade and crafting system is tiers of pointless tiers. Spending gold to upgrade crystals to upgrade an item
Inconsistent difficulty spikes where bosses have fewer hit points and do less damage than trash mobs
The poor animation extends to floating over stairs and magically climbing a ledge with one arm fully extended
Slow levelling adds to the distinct lack of action-RPG, well, action
Enemies constantly stun-lock you and juggle you to death
Enemies often don?t even react to light attacks or heavy attacks, they mostly just flash so you know they?ve been hit
Sometimes they do, and sometimes you can stun them
Combat is built on precision blocking and parries, but is so jank none of it works
Auto-targeting doesn?t work, in the sense that facing an enemy doesn?t mean you?ll attack them
Lock on system zooms the camera in so close enemies often occlude the FOV
Default camera is zoomed in too close too, you often don?t see who?s attacking you
Only one ranged class to play as
Ability cooldowns by default last for several minutes, sucking the fun out of the combat
And you can only have two equipped at any time, both tied to a single button
The list goes on

Shockingly poor storytelling
Basically no enemy variety
Lackluster sidequests
No way to access your character sheet in levels
No local co-op
Levels all feel the same
Poor puzzles
It's incredibly buggy
No cross-play